Christina Romer bio box

Christina Romer was picked as the Obama White House’s chairwoman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Here’s a quick look at her career.

Christina Romer was picked as the Obama White House’s chairwoman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Here’s a quick look at her career.

Career: Currently professor of Economics at U.C. Berkeley. She is a former vice president of the American Economic Association, a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a winner of the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. She is serving on the Business Cycle Dating Committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Research interests: The effects of fiscal policy; identification of monetary shocks; the determinants of American macroeconomic policy; changes in short-run fluctuations over the 20th century; causes of the Great Depression.

Education: She obtained her bachelor's degree from The College of William & Mary in 1981, and her PhD. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.

Sources: Change.gov; Emlab.berkeley.edu; Wikipedia.org

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